Improvement in shaft-tugs



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Shaft-Tags. w No. 157,493. r Patented Dec. 8, I874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH W. CHURCH, OF GREENVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT lN SHAFT-TUGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,493, dated December 8, 1874; application filed September 26, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osrnn W. Gannon, of Greenville, Muhlenberg county, Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Shaft-Tug, of which the following is a specification:

The invention is an improvement upon the device. for which A. Shaeler obtained Letters Patent No. 93,357, dated February 1, 1870. The improvement consists in a slotted plate having a notched tongue or tenon, which is inclined or beveled on one side, formed in the same or a parallel plane with its body or main portion, and in a socket-plate having a Vertical slot with an inclined side, and a spring slide or bolt, for engaging and locking said tenon, the construction and arrangement being such that the device is adapted for application to the upper side of vehicle-shafts and its two parts, for being locked together without withdrawing the spring-bolt, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the base-piece, attached to the shaft 13. and containing the horizontally-sliding spring catch-bolt O, and having the socket D. E is the piece to be attached to A by a notched tongue, F, fitting in the socket, and locking with the spring slide-bolt OJ This piece has a slot, G, for connecting the breast, strap or tug; also, a slot, H, for connecting the holding-back strap; also, a slot, I, for attaching the back-strap, and also two slots, J and K,

for the connection of the belly-band, thus being a means of connecting all these straps to the shaft quigkly and by one operation, and disconnecting them in the same manner.

It will be seen that the correspondingly beveled or inclined sides of the tongue E and wall of the socket D, also the beveled form of The slotted plate E, having the notched and beveled tongue F, in combination with the base-plate A, having the socket D with an inclined wall, and the beveled spring lockingbolt 0, all as shown and described, whereby said parts are adapted to be connected, and the device, as a Whole, for application to the vehicle-shafts, as set forth.

JOSIAH W. CHURCH. Witnesses:

EUGENE EAVES, FINIS M. ALLISON. 

